Trump is one of the few American politicians who actually has a fan base outside of the really die hard members of his political party, and basically the only president who has a real cult of personalty. It's most of why he's been so effective when say Ted Cruz would have lost in 2016.

This is how I feel too. He's way too much of a Zionist, if he had backed off on that even a bit I would expect him to either win or come in a close second place. I do kind of want to see what a primarily Pritzker vs Shapiro primary would look like though.

The funny thing about Shapiro is that I think his landslide reelection without a real primary challenge is going to make him delusional enough to expect that he'll win the primary. Like how Mitt Romney actually seemed to expect that he would defeat Obama in 2012. Pic related.

Behn getting support form Democratic SuperPACs and Kamala Harris even though she's probably going to lose is a pretty insane vibe shift already tbh. Even though Harris showing up is still a mistake.

Shapiro lmao. Calling AOC girl Obama also works, her speech in 2024 really felt like Obama's speech in 2004 that everyone says made him president, except with more of a delay cause I think we'll get president AOC in the 2030s.

How many Obamas will speak at the DNC in 2028? We have Obama, actually socialist African Muslim Obama, white gay Obama, and Obama wearing whiteface who could all show up.

Another point if favor of Pritzker (even though it's still too early to make an actual prediction) is that he probably knows this. Although I'm not even going to try and guess who Mamdani actually endorses, because unless AOC actually runs for president this is sort of a wild card.

We made Afghan Rambo (from the first movie, not the jingoistic latter ones) and he allegedly killed two random National Guards who got sent on a pointless fascist errand they didn't sign up for. Just the churning machine destroying people for nothing.